More on this topic soon, but today I wanted to yank on a couple of threads in recent stories looking at the mechanics of the 2024 presidential campaigns. First, the Biden campaign is following through on the field-heavy strategy they previewed last...
Hi folks, the first thing I’ll be watching in the midterm elections is how well the mass of digital ads I’m about to launch will perform. Michigan, Ohio and Illinois voters, get ready. But this year’s elections should help answer...
In one of the more bizarre political inversions of the 2020 campaign, Republicans claim that their superior field organizing will make up for Donald Trump’s consistent lag in the polls. With Biden’s field organizers leery of face-to-face...
New contributor! Mukundan Sivaraj is a political and nonprofit communications expert at CallHub, an outreach platform that connects organizations with their supporters through voice and text messages. Today he takes on a big question for 2020: how...
Top photo: Obama field team in 2008 With Democrats deep in their presidential nominating process, Donald Trump can push his messages in battleground states with little answer from candidates focused on opponents from their own party. We’ve...
Trump’s reelection team recently conducted a nationwide test of the mechanics of getting his supporters to the polls: They activated tens of thousands of volunteers and tested phone bank capabilities and get-out-the-vote operations in every...
Epolitics.com contributor Dave Leichtman just wrote a piece for Campaigns & Elections highlighting new technologies that can help Democratic campaigns reach voters more effectively: relational organizing. As big data has become even bigger...
Election Day’s a week away, but you still have time to create a basic plan to employ mobile and digital tools to get out your vote. Quick & Dirty Strategy Let’s start with whom NOT to contact. Don’t spend time and advertising...
Tuesday is the day: Alabama will choose either Republican Roy Moore or Democrat Doug Jones to take the Senate seat Jeff Sessions abandoned to become U.S. Attorney General. Moore’s repellant past has dominated the national discussion about the...
Epolitics.com contributor Sangeeth Peruri is the CEO and founder of VoterCircle, a platform that helps campaigns leverage friend-to-friend connections for voter outreach. This post first appeared on VoterCircle’s blog. Now that I have had a...